Friends who have had a rental experience in Australia know that usually, if you rent a house for a long time, the first month of rent is to give the landlord an extra month or a month and a half of rent as a Bond payment! The money is usually returned to your friends when the lease expires.
However, the Bond refund is also "exquisite", many partners at the end of the lease, did not get their full Bond money.
According to the latest data released by UrbanYou cleaning Services, in 2017, all landlords in the new state collected about A $112 million in Bond money! However, these Bond gold amounts to nearly 1/4, or A $28.6 million. The landlords took it off on the pretext of "clean and dirty"!
Elke Keeley, founder of UrbanYou, says some landlords are cunning and don't say exactly how clean the house is when they rent, so tenants don't know how clean the house is!
And when the contract expires and the tenant moves away, these unscrupulous landlords will use various pretexts to point out that the house is unclean or damaged to detain the tenant's Bond money!
With the exception of some tenants who actually vandalized the house, most of the tenants were wronged by the Bond gold buckle! For example, there are paste marks on the wall, a little fluff and subtle friction marks left in the dryer, will be used by unscrupulous landlord as an excuse to buckle Bond gold!
But the tenants are mostly dumbfounded, nothing to say, because those things do exist, but the landlord did not say, they did not deliberately clean up, who knows to become the "strong evidence" of the money!
According to the survey, landlords in and around Bondi are more likely to be picky in order to clean up more or less in place to deduct some of the Bond gold, and the costs of detention are even as high as A $1.5 million!
One of her friends, (Cici) expose, was unfairly treated before she lived near CBD, Sydney, and the landlord took her away from Bond King! She swallowed up when she was afraid of trouble.
When she first arrived in Sydney, Cici said, she didn't understand anything. She thought it would be convenient to live near the center of the city, live in food, clothing, and travel, so she foolishly looked for a house near CBD in Sydney, or a half-year rent.
Room 3, 2 bathrooms, the landlord lives in the master bedroom, and she lives in one of the ordinary secondary bedrooms, and the rent is not cheap. On the first day of Cici's visit, the landlord also took her card and opened a bank account, so she thought the landlord was all right. Generous enthusiasm is also very easy to talk, but also very refreshing to the landlord 1600 dollars of Bond gold!
At that time, the landlord girl also volunteered to see the Cici people good, Bond Kim she took it first, wait for the last month can directly meet the rent, save money has to be trouble. Cici is very happy, and I feel very good to talk to the landlord.
As the days passed, Cici realized that she was wrong. In fact, the landlord girl is too "fastidious" person.
Need to clean every day, if cooking does not open the window, the landlord will be very unhappy, even cooking white noodles this tasteless dinner.
The rent has to be called by 12:00 on the 1st of each month, and as long as it's late, there will be a chain of Call..
There were more frictions, and Cici felt overwhelmed and wanted to move out as soon as the lease expired.
As previously agreed, Cici wanted to pay Bond money for the last month of rent, but the landlord suddenly changed his mind, and the reason is very good-in case of damage to some furniture, she will lose a lot of money.
Reasonable and irrefutable, Cici agreed to return Bond King on the day of the cleaning.
On the last day, Cici was moving away, and she cleaned every corner carefully, while the landlord was watching and instructing her to take care of all kinds of corners. After the landlord had checked the house, Cici left (the landlord said to transfer Bond gold to her).
However, a few days later, Cici received the return of the Bond gold, the whole person was angry!
Only poor $1000! The landlord just withheld her $600!
And landlord theory, landlord unexpectedly said she checked later discovered, the table in Cici house some yellowish (white table), still can't wipe off! Toilet shower head seems to have some blockage, the water is not good! And there was something wrong with the carpet under the bed in Cici's room.
This and that kind of problem has muddled Cici up!
She's not messing around in the room! The color of the table could be sunburnt, she had it before she lived in it. As for the bed and shower head, she had not really seen it.
Have heard before come to Australia must not break carpet, carpet is very difficult to clean, high compensation to frighten people!
So when the landlord's brain flung her head (including the carpet), she was a little timid, plus no "proof of her innocence." Some of the steamed buns she can only say, secretly admit to plant.
Later, Cici said, she would take pictures of all kinds of places before renting a house, and at the beginning she would open up with the landlord and write them in black and white, so she could not rest assured. Although a little bit troublesome, but also never encountered this kind of crater again.
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Leo Patterson Ross of the New South Wales Leasing Alliance says they are actually encouraging unfair tenants to file complaints or even report bad landlords to court! It's just that most of the trapped tenants, like Cici, have nothing to do with it, and it takes time and energy to spend time and energy with their landlords. It's really tiring.
Because if the landlord deduct $100 Bond gold as a cleaning fee and the court fee is at least $50, no one wants to waste the effort for just $50.
This has fuelled the arrogance of unscrupulous landlords, with more and more tenants being "ridiculously exploited".
According to the new state leasing committee, nearly 45% of new state tenants have not fully recovered their Bond money, and nearly 32% of them have received only a small portion of the Bond money previously paid to their landlords!
Sydney sister Ariana Shutte is also a "victim", according to news.com.au! She is not because she did not draw up a contract with the landlord in advance on the integrity of the house facilities, but because some very small, as small as 90% of the people would not notice, but the landlord withheld 200 cleaning fees!
General people draft contracts, most will pay attention to some home appliances, furniture and other large pieces, and Ariana is the same. What I did not expect is that the landlord has too many tricks to prevent.
Her landlord withheld money on the pretext that Ariana had left some fingerprints on the mirror and that there was some unscrubbed dust in the washing machine.
In addition to the exposure of these friends are deeply damaged by unscrupulous landlords, foreign students posted bar and group also have a lot of friends among the recruitment! However, the reason for withholding money in the middle of the game is so strange that it opens people's eyes.
Iris
When it comes to the landlord, I really want to say that the house I lived in before, the carpet is almost dark! If you are not careful to lift the table, obviously see the color difference! But he asked us to go home and have to take off our shoes and walk at home in socks, every time they were black. When moving to return Bond gold, said we made the carpet like that, it was not so dark. It's dark. Black. We must share the money for carpet cleaning.
Coco
It has long been heard that some landlords will deduct Bond gold as cleaning fees, specially looking for cleaning companies to do. And then the landlord EX told me he didn't clean it up? I called the cleaning company and said they weren't clean. Finally, the cleaning company made a special trip, leaving the landlord speechless and quitting all my Bond gold.
Roxanne
Before I bought a weight to put at home, in the living room. I didn't take it when I moved and gave it to my roommate. As a result, the landlord said that I threw things around, and my things didn't take away, and I was deducted 50 Bond gold!
Linsey
After moving home several times, most of the landlords are still very nice, that is, one landlord withheld me Bond Gold $100, saying it was the so-called "cleaning fee." He didn't want to suffer losses at that time, even if he lived far away, he went to his house again, and asked him what was not clean. As a result, he lifted the microwave oven and pointed to me and told me that the ash below had not been wiped. The first time to know that the original cleaning do not know to clean the surface, even the bottom of the fall of the ash to wipe!
Jeff
In the last rented house, the landlord had a dog (big wolf dog) whose feet were so dirty that he had black footprints on the ground; and he was not used to it, and occasionally peed at home. The landlord often does not return Bond Kim threat we help her clean up together?! Finally she withheld 50 bucks and asked her only to say that she had not cleaned up.
Richard
The previous landlord, because I didn't change the light bulb when I moved out, took me $150! The point is, I didn't break the light bulb! But it is my duty to be responsible for the light bulb when I live in that house.
Jump up and lose weight
I just came to Sydney to take a Chinese house with my friends. At that time, I didn ' t understand anything and didn ' t sign the contract. As a result, I lived for more than half a year. The landlord suddenly came to us and said that Sydney ' s prices skyrocketed and rents should rise.
Let's promise two people a week to pay him an extra $200, or we'll be kicked out of the house right away, and Bond Kim won't quit.
In fact, strange landlords year after year, seizure of "cleaning fees" excuse is also constantly "updated".
Friends in the game can contribute with us to tell us about your hard-to-rent experience, or what you can avoid the operation of the trick, can also share with everyone!
After all, it is good to accumulate more experience of being trapped, in case one day it is true.